by Nicole Laljit | Apr 29, 2024 | Newsletter
Durban Appreciation Day ProBono.Org Durban hosted its Attorney Appreciation Day on 18 February 2024 to onour and celebrate the attorneys who go above and beyond for our clients. The event was an intimate and light-hearted evening filled with interaction...
by PB-M-Admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Newsletter
ProBono.Org participated in the annual Human Rights Festival at Constitution Hill from 21 to 24 March 2024. Our team was invited to share a stall with the Johannesburg Society of Advocates and Norton Rose Fulbright. The advocates and candidate attorneys from Norton...
by Francois Rothmann | Feb 20, 2024 | Guess slot, Newsletter
“Over the past years it has become abundantly clear that there is a shortage of private attorneys, social workers and psychologists to assist the Divorce and Children’s Courts on a pro bono basis. The magistrates have had a very small pool of attorneys who have...
by Nomkhosi Mqadi | Feb 20, 2024 | Newsletter
In September 2023, President Cyril Ramaphosa assented to the Land Court Act 06 of 2023 (the“Act”). The Act was introduced by the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, in May 2021. The Act was introduced to channel unresolved disputes and...
by Elsabe Steenhuisen | Feb 20, 2024 | Newsletter
We all have a good idea of the meaning of the rule of law, with reference to, amongst others, Masethla v President of the Republic of South Africa 2008 1BCLR1(CC), the so-called “covert surveillance and phone tapping” case. But do we know the history and did we...
by PB-M-Admin | Feb 20, 2024 | Newsletter
At a media briefing on 9 February 2024, ahead of the upcoming hearing against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights on 15 May 2024, ProBono.Org joined the Commission for Gender Equality and Norton Rose Fulbright SA Inc, who have been Caster Semenya’s pro...
